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Monday, July 18, 2016

Disastrous Claims About Rising Sea Levels Run Into One (Un?)fortunate Fact

The worsening of tidal flooding in American coastal communities is
largely a consequence of greenhouse gases from human activity,

writes Justin Gillis as he claims that the
Seas Are Rising at Fastest Rate in Last 28 Centuries,

and the problem will grow far worse in coming decades, scientists reported Monday.

Those
emissions, primarily from the burning of fossil fuels, are causing the
ocean to rise at the fastest rate since at least the founding of ancient
Rome, the scientists said. They added that in the absence of human
emissions, the ocean surface would be rising less rapidly and might even
be falling.

The
increasingly routine tidal flooding is making life miserable in places
like Miami Beach; Charleston, S.C.; and Norfolk, Va., even on sunny
days.

Though
these types of floods often produce only a foot or two of standing
saltwater, they are straining life in many towns by killing lawns and
trees, blocking neighborhood streets and clogging storm drains,
polluting supplies of freshwater and sometimes stranding entire island communities for hours by overtopping the roads that tie them to the mainland.

Such events are just an early harbinger of the coming damage, the new research suggests.

… scientists …
also confirmed previous forecasts that if emissions were to continue at
a high rate over the next few decades, the ocean could rise as much as
three or four feet by 2100.

Experts say the situation would then grow far worse in the 22nd century
and beyond, likely requiring the abandonment of many coastal cities.

As I wrote in a post at the time of the New York Times article five months ago:

think of New York City, of Miami, of Galveston, of San Francisco, of
Tokyo, of Sydney, of Goa, of Alexandria, of Saint Tropez, of Copenhagen.

Correct me if I am wrong, but in the past 5 years, in the past 50 years,
even offhand in the past 500 years (?), has the sea level in any of
those places risen by even one inch, by even one centimeter?

This is of course to everything the drama queens have been telling us for years, so the authors of the study in the journal Nature Geosciences must scramble to dig up an explanation. (how 'bout "natural climate fluctuation"? Alright; that'll do.)

Does part of the opening sentence contain the kicker?

… the increase of sea ice in the Antarctic despite global warming caused by climate change

That must be the first time that I read the expressions global warming and climate change in the same sentence. I thought the second was supposed to replace the first.

But no, it turns out that the one (global warming) is caused by the other (climate change). You might be forgiven for thinking that the leftists' main object is to confuse us.